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The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, rehearsing with its founder and director, John Oliver, and performing with the orchestra year-round, is so good by now that it can show off early in the summer. It opened the weekend with a virtuosic Prelude program Friday — all 20th-century, all appealing …
From the Daily Gazette’s review of this summer’s second weekend at Tanglewood.
The hero of last night’s outing was the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which sang, from the outset, with unflagging energy, commitment, and focus. The expansive contours and sheer tonal force required for the score’s massive climaxes were all present, but so were the delicacy and transparency necessary to bring across passages such as the beautifully tender prayer sung by the Trojan women at the outset of the second tableau of Act II.
From Jeremy Eichler’s review of last night’s performance of Les Troyens at Symphony Hall.
In general we need more vowels … and more consonants.
French coach Michel, giving notes on French pronunciation for Les Troyens.
Photo by Sean Santry
Back then I never would have guessed that twenty-three years later I’d be singing Christmas carols at Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops.
Photo by Lynd Matt
But the spotlight grabber of the evening was the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which sounded in superb form and deservedly drew the biggest cheers.
From the Boston Globe review of the BSO’s performance of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on September 4th.